Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advice of his willing elder, is enough to destroy a superficial similarity. Moreover, the association of the two is unhampered by any attempt at regulation by college authorities. Supplied with all the necessary information about his disciple, the graduate, by letter or conference, can advise him as he sees fit, and with perfect frankness and freedom. And the fact that no compulsion is placed on the undergraduate either in this respect, but that he seeks knowledge of his own will, is likely to better the relations. For unfortunately the virtues of experience as a teacher do not overshadow the waste...
Inventor Sperry. Elmer Sperry of Brooklyn, N. Y., inventor and marine expert, scouted Admiral Hughes' report about the difficulty of fitting a connection to the S-4's "ears." Said he: "All you need is a blueprint and you can fit it before you even go down there. There is nothing involved about an airline coupling with those tubes. ... It seems as though air should have been got to them before. It's enough to make the dead turn over in their graves...
...Labor Davis's invitation to a strike-settlement conference (see THE CABINET), Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, lone Socialist in the House, offered a resolution to have the U. S. take over the coal mines if the operators sought to "continue to rule or ruin, as they see fit, one of the Nation's basic industries." In 1902, when under similar conditions President Roosevelt issued a similar ultimatum, the coal operators surrendered. Last week, the House referred Mr. Berger's resolution to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce...
...Psychiatry has become a resort of criminal defense. Sometimes it is invoked falsely, in desperation; sometimes honestly, with justice. Judges invariably require expert advice when scientific evidence is introduced. The Smith plan would require judges to conduct trials, juries to find guilt or innocence, experts to make punishments fit crimes. Designed to promote accuracy, the plan would make for harshness quite as often as for leniency. "The power of the judge to sentence to death has done more than anything else to prevent convictions for murder in the first degree," Governor Smith pointed out. If properly constituted, a sentencing board...
Last Saturday 49,000 copies of "The Yard" semiannual publication of the Alumni Fund Council, were sent to graduates of the University. The purpose of this circulation is to collect money from Harvard graduates, which is turned over to the President and Fellows to use as they see most fit. "The Yard" serves as a reminder of the fact that such a thing as the Alumni Fund exists...